Re: (idm) technical MD question; record shops in london

From Brian
Sent Thu, Jun 18th 1998, 22:11

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Adam J Weitzman wrote:

> Alex Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > "...I have heard tests that when you dub from a Mididisk
> > to Minidisk, you start hearing audible differences after the
> > 5-10th generation. -Jeremy"
> > _________
> >
> > Assuming this is the case, is there a way to take an "image"
> > snapshot of the data on a MiniDisc and place that image onto
> > a fresh disc, bypassing the lossy codec?
> 
> There is no consumer-grade equipment that allows this.  I assume that there
> exists professional equipment which does do it, though.

I dunno - the whole basis of MD technology is ATRAC compression, so I
wonder if it would actually be a MD deck if it didn't have ATRAC....
Could be wrong though...

cya
brian
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